Sabyasachi Sanyal

Sabyasachi Sanyal (b. 1973) began publishing poetry in Kaurab at the turn of the millenniumand is now one of the magazine’s associate editors. He is the author of three books of poetry, Neel Gramophone (Blue Gramophone), Haripadagiri (Being Haripada), and Bracketshahar (Bracketcity), and a book of poetic prose, Aprilata (Aprilness), all published by Kaurab. Sabyasachi has traveled extensively around the globe and was educated in India, South Korea, and Sweden. A PhD in molecular biology, Sabyasachi teaches and works as a scientist at the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow, India.

On Barrett Watten's questions

It is no accident that the title of Barrett Watten’s second twenty-first-century critical book analyzing Language writing as an ongoing “presence” within the avant-garde continuum and literary history echoes Roman Jakobson’s 1977 collection of essays, Questions de poetique[1] Just as Jakobson’s essays interrogate the precarious position of poetry in an age saturated with analog media (e.g., how poetry is and is not different from the newspaper, the radio, television, etc.), so too Watten’s essays address the position of poetry in relationship to other modes of inn